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Writers workshop
By Avery

Jennifer, The book Word Matters by Pinnell & Fountas will probably give you great ideas on what to do. Some of the mini lessons that they suggest are using strategies good spellers se, listening for syllables in words,
saying words slowly, listening for sounds, recording letters. My first graders don't seem to understand the concept of a sentence so I am going to begin multisensory grammar tomorrow. It begins with the subject and predict of a sentence. The sentences are color coded and the kids learn that there needs to be an orange and yellow color to make a complete sentence. That is probably confusing

if you don't know what I'm talking about. But to answer your question, noit is not to early to introduce nouns or verbs or adjectives. Once they know what these words are, they can add them to their own writings to make them more interesting. I stress a lot about boring ole writing. I want it exciting. The bird sang and become The beautiful blue bird sang a lovely song. They have to start somewhere though. I talk alot about adjectives. "juicy words" They get into using these expecially if they write about a pet monster. You will find 30 minutes isn't long enough for your kids to write. They will look forward to writers workshop and want to do it more often and for longer amounts of time. I have some other topics that you could use for minilessons, I'd just have to dig them out if your interested.